. There is a hierarchy in how speech is policed in Congress. A certain ethnic and religious group is protected institutionally, while Muslims and Palestinians are expected to absorb dehumanization with nothing more than symbolic condemnation in response.
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I want people to pay close attention to this. Several U.S. members of Congress have gone on social media to express their “disgust” at Randy Fine’s remarks about Muslims. But notice what’s missing: none of them are calling for the same formal consequences they were willing to impose on Rashida Tlaib.
Take Dan Goldman here specifically. On November 8, 2023, he released a statement defending his vote to censure Tlaib, ending it with this:
“For these reasons, I voted to censure Representative Tlaib, and will do so in the future for any member who uses discriminatory hate speech against any group – including the Muslim community – and inflames violence with false statements or misinformation.”
By Goldman’s own standard, Randy Fine’s rhetoric qualifies. Yet there is no censure effort, no resolution, no follow-through, only expressions of outrage that stop short of real accountability.
And this confirms what we’ve been saying for the past two years. There is a hierarchy in how speech is policed in Congress. A certain ethnic and religious group is protected institutionally, while Muslims and Palestinians are expected to absorb dehumanization with nothing more than symbolic condemnation in response.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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